An ABC News transcript of its interview with President Donald Trump on Wednesday quoted him as saying that two people were fatally shot in Chicago while his predecessor, Barack Obama, was giving his farewell speech at McCormick Place — a claim shown to be false by Police Department records.

The passage in question was not included in the broadcast aired Wednesday night, but the network posted a longer transcript on its website that contained the remarks in question. An ABC spokesman confirmed to the Tribune on Thursday that the transcript accurately depicted the president's words, but the network did not immediately share the video with the Tribune.

Not only did no homicides take place in Chicago during Obama's address of about an hour Jan. 10, but the official Police Department records and the Tribune's crime database show that no shootings at all occurred over that time frame.

Trump apparently made the erroneous claim during an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir, who asked the president about the tweet he'd sent Tuesday that read: "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!"

After once again characterizing Chicago as a war zone, Trump told Muir that two people had been fatally shot in the city during Obama's speech. He didn't say where or how he'd come across the information.

David Muir interviews President Donald Trump. The video released by ABC News does not include a passage where Trump said two people were shot while Barack Obama gave his farewell speech at McCormick Place. Police records show no shootings took place during the speech.

David Muir interviews President Donald Trump. The video released by ABC News does not include a passage where Trump said two people were shot while Barack Obama gave his farewell speech at McCormick Place. Police records show no shootings took place during the speech.

"So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech," Trump said, according to the transcript of the interview. "Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that. They weren't shot at the speech. But they were shot in the city of Chicago during his speech. What — what's going on?"

According to the Tribune database, the city had no slayings for about 24 hours before and after Obama's speech, which lasted from 8:02 to 8:53 p.m. A man was shot about 20 minutes after the speech about eight miles away in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood, but that victim survived, according to Police Department data.

Calls and emails seeking comment from the White House media affairs office were not immediately returned.

Trump, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, has often cited Chicago's violence as an example of rampant urban crime that he would address as president.

But like many of his comments on social media and in interviews, Trump's ruminations on the city's gun violence issue have often left more questions than answers.

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In August, Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that a "very top police" official in Chicago had told him the city's crime problem could be stopped within a week with tougher tactics.

"And I believed him 100 percent," Trump said without naming the official or expanding on what tactics he was talking about. At the time, Chicago police said Trump had not met with top brass since at least March.

In September, Trump suggested in a TV interview that Chicago "is out of control" and needed to employ controversial "stop-and-frisk" police practices to stem violence.

"We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well," Trump said about the controversial practice of making street stops. "I think Chicago needs stop-and-frisk. Now, people can criticize me for that or people can say whatever they want."

Four days after taking the oath of office, Trump's "I will send in the Feds!" remark on Twitter created confusion in Chicago, where even police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said he had "no idea what he is talking about." Some took it to mean he would send in the National Guard, a move that experts warned against, especially in the wake of a U.S. Justice Department report that found rampant civil rights abuses of citizens by Chicago police.

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night about Chicago’s violence, saying he will “send in the Feds!” if the city “doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on.”

Trump’s tweet refers back to a line in his inaugural address Friday about “the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen...

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night about Chicago’s violence, saying he will “send in the Feds!” if the city “doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on.”

Trump’s tweet refers back to a line in his inaugural address Friday about “the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen...

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In seeking to clarify Trump's tweet on Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer made a similar but less specific reference to people being fatally shot on the day Obama gave his Chicago address.

"I think what the president is upset about," Spicer said, "is turning on the television and seeing Americans get killed by shootings, seeing people be — walking down the street and getting shot down, the president of the United States giving his farewell address and two people being killed that day."

Contrary to Spicer's statement and Trump's reported remarks to ABC, no one was fatally shot Jan. 10 in Chicago. Five people were wounded that day in separate shootings on the South and West sides, but none of them died, according to Tribune data and the Police Department.

The first three shootings occurred hours before the president even landed in Chicago. At 9:10 p.m., about 20 minutes after Obama's speech concluded, a 22-year-old man was shot in the back in the 1500 block of South Kolin Avenue before being transported to a local hospital in fair condition, records show.

The final shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. when another man, also 22, was shot in the right leg in the 1800 block of South Drake Avenue, records show.